Smoker&#39;s appliance



Patented Oct. 1, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SMOKEWS AIEILIANCElAnton Fischer, North Bergen, N. J.

Application December 20, 1938, Serial No. 246,793`

1 Claim.

This invention relates to smokers appliances, particularly such as areadapted to contain cigars and cigarettes, and especially the device isintended to be removably attached to the interior of an automobile, orlike vehicle, convenient of access to the riders therein.

An object of the invention is to provide means secured at differentpoints on the interior of the vehicle to which may be removably engageda cigarette container or the like, provided with a spring hinged cover,and arranged to deliver a single cigarette at each operation.

A further feature is in the provision of means for selectivelydispensing a single cigarette into position to be manually grasped bymovement of the delivery spindle.

Another purpose is to produce an attractive appearing casing, which maybe finished to suit the nish of the vehicle, and which occupies nomaterial space therewithin.

These objects are attained by the simple and novel construction andcombination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanyingdrawing, forming a material component of this disclosure, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of an embodiment of the invention shownin an open position, parts being broken away to disclose the interior.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken substantially in theplane indicated by the numerals 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective View looking from the rear of the container.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the anchoring means permanentlyconnected wherever it may be desired.

Referring in greater detail to the drawing, the

numeral l5 designates, in general, an elongated,

rectangular plate bracket provided with screw receiving openings I6, andhaving a central cut-out Il, its edges I8 being out-turned, and formingin eiect, an anchorage, having its Walls inclined to agree with thecorresponding walls `2li of a plate hanger 2 I, fixed on the rear of acontainer 22.

This container may be made of any required material, preferably sheetmetal, in the form of an oblong rectangle to suit the length ofcigarettes, or other goods x, to be disposed therein.

This container is provided at its upper rear edge with a hinge 23,provided with automatic closing means as the spring element 24, and bywhich is united a cover 25, having its front end and edges arrangedoverlappingly with respect to the top of the container, its normalposition being closed.

Disposed longitudinally in the end walls of the container, is a tube 2Bmounted for rotation, and having on its extending ends knobs 29 of anypreferred configuration suited to be grasped by the iingers.

Fixed on the tube 28, within the container is a trilobed dispenser 30,having three spaces 3l, of such magnitude as to readily receive a ciga-5 rette therein, and which are directed by guides 32 xed respectively onthe iront and rear walls of the container.

Directly below the container is a receiver 35, having open ends 36attached permanently to the 10 front and rear walls of the container bytubular beads 31, which may or may not have rods embedded therein.

The walls of the receiver 35, converge toward the center and areconnected by a loop-like trayv 38, into which the cigarette iseventually delivered. These walls are formed convergently at their endedges so that the length of the loop is materially less than thedistance between the end walls of the container, thereby facilitatingeX- traction of a cigarette.

As shown `particularly in Figure 2, a group of loose cigarettes may beentered through the top of the container to rest partially on thedispenser 30 and on the guides 32.

It will now be seen bytwirling the knobs 29 in either direction, one ofthe cigarettes will have been disposed in the elongated space 3 I, andthen delivered to the discharger 35, where it may be removed by hand.

It is noticed that a single cigarette is delivered only. That the restare retained in suitable condition within the container, and that itsuse avoids the mussiness of dropping cigarette packages around thepremises.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desiredto secure by Letters Patent, is:

A dispensing container for cigarettes comprising an open topped casingreceptive of the cigarette and having a hinged cover at its top, areceiver open at its ends and connected at its upper side edges to thebottom edges of the side walls of said casing, the walls of saidreceiver being straight, flat and convergingly inclined towards thebottom, and also towards its lower end edges, a curved loop-likeconnection between the bottom edges of the receiver walls andconstituting a tray of lesser length than a cigarette, a circulardispenser having a diameter equivalent to the space between the sideWalls of said casing and rotatably mounted in the end walls thereof,said dispenser having three longitudinal grooves each to receive asingle cigarette, guides in said casing directing cigarettes into thegrooves, and knobs on the ends of said dispenser accessible for manualoperation.

